You're coming to
Cape Town - which some of us in the Southern Hemisphere would say is the most beautiful, efficient and sophisticated city in Africa. Your choice of self catering accommodation in Cape Town will play an important part of your experience of this lovely city.
Natural beauty, convenience and full functionality, good value and privacy are all inherent in the quality accomodation in Cape Town.
Green Point has not always been popular with tourists as an area with regards to self catering accommodation in Cape Town.
Green point which incorporates a common, is situated on the edge of
V&A Waterfront and
Cape Town CBD and is being visibly upgraded on an ongoing basis.
The new
2010 World Cup Soccer stadium currently being completed in Green Point has encouraged new development and infrastructure upgrade in this up and coming area.
Up until a few years ago Green Point wasn't really a place people wanted to visit.
The Cape Town traffic department (also known as Gallows Hill) which is still based in Green Point was a place you visited only when you had to, resulting in unpleasant associations.
If you were feeling a little gay or a lot gay then The Bronx bar was a reliable meeting place for gentlefolk.
And ladies would stand on display on the corners of streets with staid names such as St George's and Vesperdene.
All these factors made
Green Point quite an unsavoury place - at least for tourists when choosing self catering accommodation in Cape Town.
As a result of recent changes
Green Point has become more slick and modernised while retaining its character.
Ideally located close to Cape Town and on the border of the
V&A Waterfront, this area has been targeted for densification and re-development.Lots of new modern well located apartments in Green Point means there is a much better choice of self catering accommodation in Cape Town.
The
Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Development is the very affluent neighbour of Green Point.
The
Waterfront Marina is now fully developed with regards to both hotel and residential accommodation - some of the most exclusive self catering accommodation in Cape Town is located here.
This has resulted in a similiar quality of development in Greenpoint which lies on the V&A Waterfront's southern boundary.
And so Green Point became the next logical area to re-develop - upmarket all-suite hotels and modern apartment blocks have sprung up everywhere. Because of its location and proximity to Cape Town and the V&A Waterfront, apartments in this area have become sought after self catering accommodation in Cape Town.
The reason Green Point apartments are an excellent choice for self catering accommodation in Cape Town is that while delivering better value for money they have easy access to all the V&A Waterfont's attrations & facilities.
And of course the security-conscious and high-tech V and A Waterfront lacks the aura of street-cred evident in Green Point.
Good food outlets, trendy restaurants, delicatessens, coffee shops, a few first floor balcony lounge bars and the massive liquor and wine warehouse, Ultra Liquors, pepper the pavements and
add to the unpretentious groove of Green Point.
